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...tiny craft probed a corridor 10 miles long by 1 mile wide for several days, gradually narrowing the search area as it scanned the bottom for wreckage. On Friday, the Scarab 1 first detected the distinctive electronic pinging signals emitted by flight recorders but could not fix their location. Then, at 2 a.m. last Tuesday, the engineers hit the jackpot: on their video screens they saw the downed plane's voice recorder on the ocean floor, 6,700 ft. below. Maneuvering the sub closer by firing small bursts from its thrusters, they gingerly extended one of Scarab's mechanical arms...
...fix the unbroken often leads nowhere. Singin' in the Rain was not really improved by being turned into a splashy Broadway musical. Casablanca will not be improved if it is remade with John Travolta as Rick and Brooke Shields as Ilsa, with Prince singing As Time Goes By. Come to think of it, would baseball be improved if we speeded it up for today's busy audiences by ending the game after six innings? Do we really need a new national anthem, with a tune that can be sung and words that can be remembered...
...CLEAN AND DISINFECT Spyware?programs that covertly send information about your Web activities to third parties?is often a big reason a computer is acting sluggish. Fix it with software like Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition (download free at www.lavasoftusa.com) or Spy Sweeper 3.5 (webroot.com; $29.95 for a one-year subscription). To avoid future digital insurgencies, set your Web browser to block pop-up ads. The Firefox browser (mozilla.com) makes that easy, and experts say it has fewer security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer. Make sure your antivirus program is up to date...
...June] they said we can fix this now and you can miss the Cape season, or you can go out and play and we can fix it later,” Farkes says. “At that point, I had just been drafted, and was still thinking about that, and I thought I could keep playing. But the pain got to that point where I wasn’t sure...
...report did not suggest ways to fix the two highly defective panels of the tunnel, and it said that the steel beams of the tunnel’s roof may have long-term problems with corrosion...